Background Digital economy and intelligent society have become new drivers of innovation and development in today world. Intelligent soil and water conservation is a trend and provides stronger impetus and support for ecological protection and high-quality development.
Methods Here author presented 5 aspects of intelligent soil and water conservation based on own long-term working experiences and accurate understanding on this topic.
Results 1) Intelligent soil and water conservation is based on massive data. The massive data may be just stored in the archives and on paper, even not be so reliable and cannot be processed by computer. They should be met 5 requirements of being processable in computer, systematical, reliable, no secret leakage and shareable. 2) Deep integration of high and new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, Internet and blockchain with soil and water conservation management and socialized services, long series and multi frequency survey data of regional soil erosion provide support for scientific layout and intelligent decision-making of soil erosion prevention and control. The in-depth development of long-term and positioning observation data will provide support for the construction of prediction model and early warning plan. 3) The detailed management of key soil and water conservation projects, the in-depth development of the theories, as well as standards and achievements of comprehensive management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand in a basin, together support the monitoring and evaluation of ecological functions of soil and water conservation, the quality and stability of ecosystem, popularized and replicated successful cases and the scientific allocation of technical measures, and provide intelligent services. 4) Massive data development of soil and water conservation plan, monitoring, supervision, approval and information supervision of production and construction projects serve scientific, accurate and efficient tracking and inspection, independent prediction of soil and water conservation compliance, problem alert, rectification and verification, etc. Intelligent monitoring, warning and rapid tracking of violations of soil and water conservation credit should be implemented. 5) The annual dynamic monitoring data of soil and water loss is deeply developed to serve the completion of monitoring and target evaluation of soil and water conservation tasks, and the intelligent tracking, monitoring, early warning and evaluation of important ecological function areas, ecologically sensitive areas and key prevention and control areas of soil and water loss.
Conclusions We have massive data from the previous soil and water conservation work, and huge more coming from current digital time, there are a lot of work in the field of intelligent soil and water conservation.